Just a quick post here this morning: This Friday, at noon (PST) we’ll be hosting a joint Webinar with EMC on “The Benefits of Compehensive Application Availability and Performance Management.” Ultimately, when applications crash or perform poorly, it costs the company money and annoys the people that use the application. We teamed up with EMC [...]
Archive | October, 2008
Not Dead Yet
Network World has a Halloween themed slideshow up for the “2008 IT Industry Graveyard.” Interesting enough, but we’ve got to disagree with some of their choices. Some of them were declared dead prematurely… in fact, you could say that they were… Buried Alive! For example, the first one is Windows XP – with the idea [...]
Cisco ships Mexican folk music instead of VPN software. Easy mistake: They’re so similar…
According to The Register, Cisco installation CDs for VPN networks contained music. Specifically, music that sounded exactly like this. Now, Mexican folk music of the “narcocorridos” variety has a rich tradition and requires extreme skill to produce, and is greatly enjoyed by many music aficionados. But still, if you’re going to come up with a [...]
Economy, up? Down? IT? What?
Trying to predict the economy is like a sword-nunchuck. The more you flail around with it, the more likely you are to lose your head. Over the past few weeks we released the results of two surveys we conducted – one at Interop New York in mid-September, and one at IP ’08 Expo in London [...]
Disasters in IT, and Ninja Networking
Other than Unix Beards and “funny” T-shirts with hex code on them – which more accurately qualify as fashion disasters – the biggest project disasters in IT, according to today’s top story in Computer World, tend to repeat themselves: When you look at the reasons for project failure, “it’s like a top 10 list that [...]
Network Performance Links, October 8, 2008
Silicon.com: Old apps, Gartner says, could be problem Silicon.com reports that analyst Scott Nelson at Gartner warned against IT “train wrecks” caused by spending money on short-term fixes designed to keep older applications – including applications no longer supported by vendors – running while not looking at a broader IT strategy. As tech ages, its [...]
This-specific-end-to-that-specific-end network performance management.
EMA analyst Dennis Drogseth had a column in Network World yesterday talking about end-to-end application management. In it, he had this to say: You might believe, and with some real justification, that the term “end to end” is only used by vendors who custom-fit the definition to the scope of their particular product. Does “end-to-end” [...]
IP’08 attendees confirm Interop polls
Sorry to talk about the economy again. On the other hand, at least I’m not talking about the VP debates. Recently, London hosted the IP ’08 Expo, and while we were there, we conducted the same spending survey that we did at Interop NY. Interop NY happened from Sept. 15th to 19th, so it was [...]
Send in the Clouds, There Ought to be Clouds
According to InfoWorld, Microsoft has announced, (or more accurately, has announced that they will announce) an operating system called Windows Cloud. Supposedly it’s intended for developers of cloud-computing applications, much like Google’s App Engine allows you to develop and run a Web app, built in Python, on Google’s hosted servers. What makes this particularly interesting [...]
Challenging Biometrics and Network Performance
Boy, if there’s one thing on this blog I’d like to touch with a 10-foot barge pole, it’s the Iraq war. I can’t wait to step with both feet first into the controversial, nation-dividing conflict that has adversely affected many, many lives. And I would love to do it while everyone’s stirred up over the [...]
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The Final Debate
This is interesting; I actually had a conversation recently with my boss, in which I argued that the elections may have an impact on network performance so much as who is elected will help determine U.S. telecommunications policy, but otherwise… well, there wasn’t much to write about on the blog. Apparently, I’m wrong. Because Slashdot [...]